Episode Description
In the 42-minute podcast, Puck’s John Ourand joins “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand” for the monthly Marchand & Ourand reunion
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What’s on tap:
* Ourand is curious about if Amazon Prime Video’s Thursday Night Football can out-rate ESPN's Monday Night Football this season
* Why Amazon has the best sports strategy of the streamers
* How Amazon has created one of the great modern bundles and where sports fits
* Why Ourand is fascinated by Amazon's channel strategy and the comparison with Jimmy Pitaro's ESPN DTC app
* How the YouTube game translates into the NFL's plans for an expanded international package
* How YouTube's international numbers were disappointing
* Marchand thinks globalization for sports viewing is a little overrated
* Why Marchand thinks an international package might be split up different
* Why soccer is the winner in sports viewing globalization
* How Marchand & Ourand have found using the new ESPN app
* Why ESPN is not cutting the cord with new app
* The WWE events create a fatter cable bundle, according to Ourand
* How many people want an RSN app, who don't already have it
* The advantage for the subscriber with the ESPN app
* Why the RSNs are hedging their bets
* The dangers of making apps too expensive
* The YouTube NFL Friday number compared to Peacock's a year ago
* The power of NBC marketing
* How NBA new partners will come second nature and how NBC will use NFL to promote its NBA
* Ourand says NASCAR streaming is comparable to network
* Why the ratings are a little suspect everywhere
* The CW with best game of the week and maybe there is a middle
* Ourand says the RedZone commercials are a big deal
* The best part of the Manningcast
* Peyton Manning tries to get the Pope on MNF
* Peacock has most new stuff outside of ESPN
* Why Marchand doesn't like ESPN's soccer strategy
* Ourand officially owes Marchand a steak over ESPN app launch bet
* Ourand starts talking Orioles and Marchand had enough
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